• § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Old English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative since Old English is preserved only as a written language...
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  • ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonological system of the Old English language underwent many changes during the period of its...
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  • transcription delimiters. English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in...
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  • the nature of Old English phonology. Middle English Old English phonology Compare their descendents fairer and fairest in Modern English, as in "who is...
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  • development of the phonology of English over time, starting from its roots in proto-Germanic to diverse changes in different dialects of modern English. In the following...
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  • In phonology, syncope (/ˈsɪŋkəpi/; from Ancient Greek: συγκοπή, romanized: sunkopḗ, lit. 'cutting up') is the loss of one or more sounds from the interior...
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  • see Phonological history of Old English (dialects). Some of the principal sound changes occurring in the pre-history and history of Old English were...
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  • transcription delimiters. This article describes those aspects of the phonological history of English which concern consonants. Reduction of /hw/ – to /h/ in a few...
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  • media help. Australian English (AuE) is a non-rhotic variety of English spoken by most native-born Australians. Phonologically, it is one of the most...
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  • phonological history of English as well as the articles on Old English phonology and Middle English phonology. The vowel changes over time can be seen in the following...
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  • North American English regional phonology is the study of variations in the pronunciation of spoken North American English (English of the United States...
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  • and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Middle English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative, since it is preserved only as...
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  • human languages. The word "phonology" (as in "phonology of English") can refer either to the field of study or to the phonological system of a given language...
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  • symbols. Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation...
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  • Rohirric language. Modern Old English orthography adds additional diacritics above certain letters to show specific phonological features. These distinctions...
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  • § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonological history of English includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters. The H-cluster reductions...
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    Old English: A historical linguistic companion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lass, Roger; Anderson, John M. (1975). Old English phonology....
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  • The phonology of the open back vowels of the English language has undergone changes both overall and with regional variations, through Old and Middle English...
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  • related to Old English and Old Frisian. Thus, anyone looking at Old Saxon phonology will recognize some typical West-Germanic phonological features also...
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  • certain whether Old English words such as niht (modern night) were pronounced with [x] or [ç], [ç] is likely (see Old English phonology). Despite the phonetic...
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  • of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of the sub-categories of Old English...
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  • a southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being...
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  • English, vol. 1: Phonology, Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 113–133, ISBN 3-11-017532-0 Bowerman, Sean (2004), "White South African English: phonology", in Schneider...
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    Appalachian English and the 20th-century Great Migration bringing African-American Vernacular English to the Great Lakes urban centers. Any phonologically unmarked...
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  • symbols, see Help:IPA. Scholars have attempted to reconstruct the phonology of Old Chinese from documentary evidence. Although the writing system does...
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  • Old English metre is the conventional name given to the poetic metre in which English language poetry was composed in the Anglo-Saxon period. The best-known...
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    Proto-Germanic (see Phonological history of Old English § Palatalization). The earliest varieties of an English language, collectively known as Old English or "Anglo-Saxon"...
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  • particularly those from Old French. For a table showing the development of the Middle English diphthongs, see Middle English phonology (diphthong equivalents)...
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  • playing this file? See media help. This article covers the phonological system of New Zealand English. While most New Zealanders speak differently depending...
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  • Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades...
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